Cinegola rating: ***__ Watchable (3 stars)
Cinegola points: 3 out of 5
Tagline: Smuggle in style
Strengths: Surya, story, screenplay and direction
Weaknesses: Slightly dragging second half
My analysis:
Veedokkade movie is a perfect action entertainer with all the necessary elements of commercial success. The only drawback for this movie is it is an out and out tamil movie with complete tamil flavour in it. This will be the only reason for the failure of this movie in telugu.
Director KV Anand selected a good story and executed it on screen in an even better way so that the audience will not be bored while watching the movie. The first half of the movie is entertaining with perfect smuggling scenes, hero-heroine romance and plenty of action sequences. The second half is little dragging with all the emotional and action sequences but the audience will not feel bored because of the racy screenplay and perfect direction.
Performances:
Surya acted perfectly for the role of an educated smuggler who does his job for thrill and adventure. He excelled in giving the perfect emotions and feelings in all the required sequences. Surya also developed a six-pack body which suited him perfectly. This body also helped him for the action sequences (mainly those fights involving negros) in creating the natural effect in his punches. The body also gave him an angry young man look which was required for the role in the movie. Surya should also be commended for learning Yamasaki fights for Veedokkade movie.
Tamannah looks good as the lady love of Surya. She is shown as a modern middle-class college going girl. The director also showed Tamannah more glamorously when compared with her earlier movies.
Prubhu was good in the role of God-father for Surya.
Jagan who acted as the friend of Surya was decent.
Debutant villan Akashdeep acteded aptly for the role.
Fight master Kanal Khannan should be appreciated for his action sequences in the movie. He should mainly be appreciated for the first fight in Africa and the chase sequence in Malaysia.
Cinematograghy by MS Prabhu is good. He captured the locations of Africa in perect style and elegance.
Music by Harris Jayaraj is ok. The first song is the only song which will be remembered by the audience when they come out of the theatere.
Story, screenplay and direction by KV Anand are the most attractive things in Veedokkade movie. Anand selected a perfect commercial story and brought it on screen with all the necesary commerial payoffs and emotions like action, adventure, romance, sentiment and friendship. KV Anand should be appreciated for his research in smuggling techniques and also for shooting them in perfect manner.
Cast: Surya, Tamannah, Prabhu, Akashdeep Saigal, Jagan and many more
Banner: AVM
Fights: Kanal Kannan
Cinematography: MS Prabhu
Art: Rajeevan
Music: Harris Jayaraj
Producer: M Sarvanan, MS Guhan, Aruna Guhan and Aparna Guhan
Story, Screenplay and Direction: KV Anand
Final Judgement: Average
